I want to express some thoughts on Pentecost,
its prophetic significance as one of the three main
feasts-seasons given to Israel, and how I think God wants us to
determine its timing. In the prior parts I presented that
Pentecost will fall on August 26th this year (according to what
I believe to be the accurate biblical calender wherein this year
a "leap" month was to be added), and that this upcoming
fulfillment of Pentecost as a prophetic type/shadow will only
relate to the 144,000 Jewish witnesses, and not to the body of
Christ. We will be gone before then, in my
speculation/anticipation.

Many Christians determine Pentecost by a count of
50 days that overlaps a count of 7 weeks. This popular
belief is based upon the common English translation of Levitcus
3:15-16 and tradition. This way of counting is also done
by many Jews. However, I started to question this
understanding when I considered the following:

I observe in Acts 2:13 that some scoffers in the
crowd, hearing "unknown to them" differing languages from the
120 followers of Jesus (see 1:15), asserted that the followers
were drunk on new wine since it sounded like a bunch of babbling
to them. However, grapes harvested for wine would not be
ripe in May, the month that traditional Pentecost was celebrated
this year. This is one clue that the true Pentecost is not
on a 50th day right after a count of 7 weeks after the
Passover's First Fruits offering. Enough grapes would be ripe to
make new wine if Pentecost is determined by adding a full 50
days after the 7 weeks.

Another thing I observed was that after Peter's
message to the Jews gathered from many countries in Acts 2, the
scriptures indicate that 3000 received the message of life about
Jesus, and what He accomplished. Where had I come across a
3000 person group before?

In Exodus 32:28. 3000 people of the children
of Israel were killed because of rebellion against God.

When did this happen? After Moses had spent
40 days with God on Sinai, starting on or about the 19th/20th
day of the 3rd month. If I add 40 days to the 19th/20th, I
come to about the end of the forth month, when Moses came down
from Sinai with the stone tablets. The end of the 4th
month falls in the same window of time for Pentecost if I count
off 7 weeks and then add 50 days.

I also came across the following articles that
echoed what I observed.

Also, if you do an internet search for "The
Scriptural Count to Feast of Weeks when Pentecost really is
FULLY COME - Creation Calendar", you will find a download for a
good article.

Now, this year, the Jews just celebrated Pentecost
(Shavuot) on May 20th. However, from what I understand,
the 70 member Sanhedren in Israel disagrees with the popular
Jewish calendar, as well as karaite jews because they use the
first sliver of the sighted new to begin a month. This
year this ended up shifting the date they determine Pentecost
forward one week compared to the popular Jewish calendar. See an
example of such a calendar here:

Keep in mind that they do the count of Pentecost
by having the 50 days overlap with the 7 weeks. They
assert that Pentecost should be May 27th, not May 20th.
What I find interesting is that if I start the count of the 50
days on May 27th as these folks should have done then I arrive
at July 15th, the day I am thinking the rapture will take
place. July 15th should the Sanhedren's and karaite's
Pentecost if they had done the count of days and weeks
correctly.

I understand that at this point I may be confusing
to some reading this. I have now presented in these emails
two Pentecosts (adding 50 days to 7 weeks). The one above
on July 15th, per the Sanhedren, if they had done the count
correctly, and August 26th, per the accurate Biblical calendar.

The significance of the Sanhedren's
properly-counted Pentecost, even though it is not biblically
accurate in terms of when the new year and the new months are to
start, is that it falls on the 18th day of the 3rd month of the
true biblical calendar. I believe God is actually going to
fulfill the accurate calendar while on the same date seem to
fulfill the Sanhedren's Pentecost. He will take us home on
a date where the two calendars dovetail. God will do this,
in part, to provoke the 144,000 to jealousy. They will not
recognize it as a fulfillment of the type/shadow of Moses and
Mount Sinai, but will recognize it as a fulfillment of
Pentecost.

I believe that at this season, God is allowing the
Sanhedren to be the authority for the jewish calendar until the
two witnesses arrive and set them straight. God will
fulfill His calendar "timings" according to types/shadows.
In terms of us going home, that will be according to the
type/shadow of when God descended to the top of Mount Sinai, in
a dense cloud, during a long, loud trumpet blast, calling Moses
up in the sight of the observers, and with Moses then going up
to meet God.

In terms of the Sanhedren's Pentecost, there will
also be fulfillment of the
traditions of the jews in how they celebrate Pentecost that
allude to the rapture, while at this moment the rapture is
unbeknownst to them. For example, an aspect to their
ceremony is called "the decorating of the bride" (pointing to
us being the true bride of Jesus). Another tradition is
that some stay up all night because they believe that for a
brief moment the heavens open and they will receive a blessing
from God (possibly pointing to the moment the heavens indeed
open as Jesus descends for us). Gary Stearman of
Prophecy Watchers has some excellent teachings up on his
Youtube channel that provide good detail on these traditional
ways some Jews celebrate Pentecost, or Shavuot.

The reason I place weight on the 70 member
Sanhedren as it relates to being the religious authority to Jews
today is because this seems to be the way God wanted Israel
governed under Moses. You see this even in the events at
Mount Sinai in Exodus 24 where God also invites the 70 elders of
Israel to accompany Moses, in one of his visits with God, and
eat the covenant meal before God.

Now, going back to something I wrote in part 1, I
do not believe a fulfillment of Pentecost this year on August
26th applies to the body of Christ, but to the 144,000 Jewish
witnesses. Why not?

I understand that when the Holy Spirit came down
and started indwelling those who had accepted Jesus in Acts 2,
that this ultimately was to be a great blessing for the body of
Christ. However, I do not believe that Acts 2 was when the
church age started, and thus is not a valid timing clue for when
the church age ends at the rapture.

I believe in Acts 2 Israel was being given a
second opportunity to accept the Messiah as a nation.
However, this kingdom of God on earth, centered on the Messiah
Jesus, was once again rejected by Israel. This is
evidenced by the stoning of Stephen. It is not until Acts
13:1-2 where the Holy Spirit tells the group meeting to set
apart Paul and Barnabas for the work the Spirit wanted them to
do, that the church-age started in an "embriotic" stage. I
did a Greek word study on "set apart" and it means to completely
cut-off or sever. Paul and Barnabus were to begin something new.
I believe this is when the church age truly started, and was
then fully in place at the destruction of the temple in 70
AD. In other words, Acts is a transition book, bringing to
a close God's focusing on the nation of Israel for them to
inherit the earth-based kingdom of God, to God focusing on the
body of Christ who is to inherit the kingdom of God in the
heavenly places (Eph 1:3).

Also, when I compare details of Pentecost when
Moses came down from the mount, with details of Pentecost in
Acts 2, I notice that the type/shadow theme of Pentecost is not
only that it is a feast which marks a transition in terms of how
God deals with and relates to Israel, but it also includes God's
new message for the new dispensation. The rapture of the
body of Christ will not include this second aspect and so, I
believe, will not fulfill Pentecost, nor take place on its true
timing.

In terms of the fulfillment of Pentecost including
a new message/revelation from God for the new dispensation,
Moses had the stone tablets along with all the information God
gave him during those 40 days to present to the children of
Israel. In Acts 2 the Holy Spirit gave the 120
disciples/followers the gift to be able to speak a message in
different languages in order to communicate clearly about Jesus
and His Salvation to Jews who had gathered from many surrounding
nations to celebrate Pentecost in Jerusalem.

In my mind, the next fulfillment of Pentecost will
focus on the 144,000 Jewish witnesses, at the transition from
the church age to Israel's 70th week of Daniel, and these
message-bearers will also likely be gifted by God to speak in
different languages in order to communicate God's message of
salvation during the judgement years.

The rapture of the body of Christ, in my thinking,
does not fulfill the full theme of Pentecost. I believe
the waving of the wheat loaves as a Firstfuits offering of wheat
harvest (which requires the use of a device called a tribulum to
break away the wheat grains' outer shell, or chaff, from the
grain nut itself) will have fulfillment when these 144,000 are
raptured to heaven in the middle of the judgement years.
You see them in heaven in Revelation 14:1-5. Notice in
verse 4 that they are called "first fruits".

Again, I am simply placing my thoughts "on the
table" for your consideration. Our true teacher is the
Holy Spirit. Look to Him to confirm any of this, or not.